By Cathy Locke
clocke@sacbee.com
A Roseville business that serves children with disabilities is reeling from the second burglary in about a month.
Dayna Thomas, a speech therapist, and her husband, Joshua, own Jabbergym, with facilities in Roseville and Sacramento. Dayna Thomas said someone broke the front window of the business in a Roseville center in 100 block of North Sunrise Avenue sometime early Sunday morning.
"They took all of our computers, servers, scheduling tools, all of our software," she said today in a telephone interview
The burglars even took trash cans and the "sticker box" containing stickers youngsters use in play and therapy sessions.
Thomas said computer equipment was taken in a previous burglary, in which someone entered by breaking a window at the rear of the building.
Jabbergym, in operation in Roseville for six years, provides speech and physical therapy, primarily for infants and children age 5 and younger. Its services are funded in part by the state Department of Developmental Services and area school districts, Thomas said.
Jabbergym serves about 300 youngsters weekly, about 100 of them at the Roseville site. About 40 percent of the clients are children with autism, Thomas said.
Roseville Police Department spokeswoman Dee Dee Gunther said police had taken reports on burglaries at Jabbergym on May 29 and Sunday. She said another business in the same complex on North Sunrise Avenue reported a burglary involving theft of a computer about the same time in May, as did a nearby Dimple Records store.
All are near the Douglas Boulevard-Sunrise Avenue intersection, which Gunther described as one of the busiest areas in the city, with easy access from Interstate 80.
Although the center in which Jabbergym is located has a night watchman, Thomas said she was having a new security system installed in hopes of preventing further burglaries.
"The first time, we thought it was just a random act of someone who was really in need," she said.
This time, she said, it seemed like an act of meanness.
Call The Bee's Cathy Locke, (916) 321-5287.
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